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As much as VB6 sucks as a programming language, this will honestly be useful to a lot of people out there. Because whether it sucks or not, if you've inherited a VB6 codebase then that's what you have to work with.

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VB6 is one of those languages that sucks in many ways, but is also very attractive in other ways. Easy to abuse, but if used correctly can be quite nice. It really needed a "VB6, the Good Parts" book -- and yes, the book wouldn't be empty.

In any case, kudos to MS for this. I'd love to see them take on a general position that when they EOL support, they open source the code.

So does many other languages. The VB support of COM is so sweet, although they put a little bit too much magic into binary compatibility.

True. I wouldn't claim it's any suckier than PHP, for example. Both "suck", but both have their uses.

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